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Disclaimer: This is a very unpopular opinion on hn. Jump on the next hype topic any FANG company is talking about. Everytime you got a lot of developers jumpin
by tpetry 6y ago
Disclaimer: This is a very unpopular opinion on hn.
Jump on the next hype topic any FANG company is talking about. Everytime you got a lot of developers jumping blindly into it even if they dont need it and you earn a lot of money by buying one of the first snd again if you move people away from it because its not a silver bullet for everyone.
Think about big data and map-reduce 10+ years ago, everybody was using it, and many with workloads <100GB you could reslly throw onto one beefy machine. Take nosql databases and everyone rebuilding joins and transactional semantics until switching back to a traditional database. Or the hype of microservice which is vanishing more and more.
There are not that many inventions which really last, and nobody is able to predict it very good. But being an early adaptor of some fang hype get you somewhere.
- huhnmonster 6y agoOut of curiosity I just did what you described - to me it seems like machine learning and everything surrounding it is the only hot topic right now. Would you agree or did I just look at the wrong Github accounts?
- p1esk 6y agoI think he meant the next hype thing FAANGs are talking about. Maybe it’s gonna be VR/AR, maybe IoT, maybe personalized medicine, biohacking, who knows. That’s where you can be one of the first, an early adopter. If you just started in ML field, you can probably still get a job, but you will be competing with an awful lot of people.